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Dane Suarez in OperaDelaware’s 2025 OperaDEathmatch (photo: Moonloop Photography)

Article Published: 17 Apr 2026

OperaDelaware's company artists earn full-time salaries serving as both singers and administrators

By Heidi Waleson

When OperaDelaware partnered with boxing champion Dave Tiberi and some of his boot camp students in November 2025, it transformed a program of famous opera scenes into OperaDEathmatch, a series of artistic bouts. Attendees cheered for their favorite singers, who were also clad in boxing gloves and robes, and for their favorite fighters during some inter-aria sparring bouts.

This article was published in the Spring 2026 issue of Opera America Magazine.

Heidi Waleson

Heidi Waleson is The Wall Street Journal’s opera critic and the author of Mad Scenes and Exit Arias: The Death of New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America.

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